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Titre(s) : Viking-age trade [Texte imprimé] : silver, slaves and Gotland / edited by Jacek Gruszczyński, Marek Jankowiak and Jonathan Shepard
Publication : Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIV-473 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Collection : Routledge archaeologies of the Viking world
Lien à la collection : Routledge archaeologies of the Viking world
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and
northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well-known, as is the fact that
the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries
have shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles, too. What brought the dirhams
to northern Europe in such large numbers? The fur trade has been proposed as one driver
for transactions, but the slave trade offers another - complementary - explanation.
This volume does not offer a comprehensive delineation of the hoard finds, or a full
answer to the question of what brought the silver north. But it highlights the trade
in slaves as driving exchanges on a trans-continental scale. By their very nature,
the nexuses were complex, mutable, and unclear even to contemporaries, and they have
eluded modern scholarship. Contributions to this volume shed light on processes and
key places: the mints of Central Asia; the chronology of the inflows of dirhams to
Rus and northern Europe; the reasons why silver was deposited in the ground and why
so much ended up on Gotland; the functioning of networks - perhaps comparable to the
twenty-first century drug-trade; slave-trading in the British Isles, and the stimulus
and additional networks that the Vikings brought into play. This combination of general
surveys, presentations of fresh evidence, and regional case-studies sets Gotland and
the early medieval slave trade in a firmer framework than has been available before"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Gruszczyński, Jacek (1980-....). Éditeur scientifique
Jankowiak, Marek. Éditeur scientifique
Shepard, Jonathan (1948-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Dirham (monnaie médiévale) -- Gotland (Suède)
Traite des esclaves -- Gotland (Suède) -- Moyen âge
Vikings -- Commerce
Indice(s) Dewey :
382.440 948 (23e éd.) = Esclaves (commerce international) - Scandinavie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138293946. - ISBN 1138293946 (rel.). - ISBN 9781315231808 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46843290k
Notice n° :
FRBNF46843290
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